u: = 5pt really helps! It doesnt seem to effect the line water-flow arrow heads. As there anyway to scale them down with a simple metapost line? Thank you for all your hard work! :) Philip Schuchardt On Tuesday 02 May 2006 4:33 am, Martin Budaj wrote:
On 5/1/06, Philip Schuchardt <ohc@vt.edu> wrote:
I am drawing a large map and had to in increase the scale from 1:200 to 1:600. Therion seems to scale walls and lines really well but the point symbols stay the same size for any scale.
No, points symbols are scaled, although not linear. In the 1:600 scale they are exactly half the size of symbols in 1:200 scale.
Is there anyway to scale the point symbols,
other then typing -scale tiny |small | normal | large | huge for each point symbol?
If you'd like to have more control, you may use
1) base-scale command in layout (see thbook) 2) directly change the size of symbols using following code in layout (undocumented and not recommended)
code metapost u:=5pt; %%% or any other value
Both commands change the apperance of line symbols as well. Map symbols were not yet optimized for different scales (we mostly use 1:200 and 1:2000 / 1:5000 without symbols). Suggestions are welcome.
Martin